The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
BABY CHICKS 
Price List—Prepaid to You—Purebred Stock. 
New Jersey Egg-laying Contest 
Reports ou feed consumption anrl cost 
for the hens in the two New Jersey egg- 
laying contests have been printed. One 
of these contests is located at Vineland, 
the other at Emerson. The following fig¬ 
ures show the cost of feed and profits per 
bird. It may not be quite fair to com¬ 
pare the Campines and the Anconas with 
the other breeds, since there were com¬ 
paratively fen uf the two named; but. 
here are the official figures for Emerson: 
Wyan¬ 
dotte 
tluil chicks should die in such numbers 
without diarrlaca or other symptoms of 
disease. You are probably acquainted 
with the symptoms of white diarrluca. 
and would t-ertainly recognize any evi¬ 
dence of diarrho-al troubles. Brooder 
pneumonia, caused by fungus growths 
derived from musty or moldy litter or 
dead organic matter, sometimes'carries 
oil' many chicks in a flock, but symptoms 
of obstruction to breathing and diarrhoea 
should be present. On general principles 
Campine 
Plym 
Rock 
Item 
Number birjls . l ISO 
Amt. grain consumed 36.2 lbs. 
Amt. mash consumed 52.7 lbs. 
Ratio gram .to mash. . 1—l.o 
Feed cost per bird.. . 
Value eggs per bird . 
Returns above feed .. 
$-.02 
$5.00 
$2.4* 
Average 
for the 
Ancona Leghorn 2.000 
hens 
60 
2S.9 tbs. 
01.3 lbs. 
1—1.1 
$1.80 
$6.08 
$4.28 
Tne same Items are given below for the Vineland Contest. 
Number birds ... . . .. 
Amount grain consumed 
Amount mash consumed 
Ratio grain to mash. 
Feed cost p#r bird. 
Value eggs per bird. 
Returns above feed _ 
Plym. 
Rook 
37.5 lbs. 
49.9 lbs. 
1—1 3 
$2.59 
$5.91 
$3.32 
Wyan¬ 
dotte 
06 
35.4 lbs. 
41.5 lbs. 
1 — 1.2 
$2.29 
$5.22 
$2.93 
Leghorn 
31.8 lbs. 
44.2 lbs. 
1—1.4 
*2.25 
$6.74 
$•*.49 
Average 
for the 
1.200 hens 
144 
35.7 lbs. 
47.9 lbs. 
1—1.3 
$2.48 
$5.64 
$3.16 
The number of eggs for each breed is 
given us follows. Remember that the Ber¬ 
gen County birds were pullets, while the 
Vineland birds were yearlings. The best 
single bird in Bergen County wa* a R. I. 
Red. which laid 'Jot eggs. The best Vine- 
land bird was a Wyandotte, laying 295 
eggs. The best pen at Bergen County 
coniained lit) Leghorn pullets. They laid 
o.78-l eggs, while 20 Reds laid 3.022. At 
Vineland. 20 Leghorn hens laid 2,250, 
while 20 Plymouth Rocks laid 1.987. and 
20 Reds. 1.859. 
Diarrhoea in Chicks 
We had hatched some chickens the first 
of this month, They lived for about six 
days and then began to die. They seemed 
to have diarrhoea. We feed them hutter- 
milk. chick food, coi'utneal, and sour milk. 
What is the proper heat to give them 
right after batching? w. G. K. 
Connecticut. 
These chicks may have bad simple diar¬ 
rhoea from improper feeding or cave. or. 
what seems more likely, they may have 
had true white diarrhiea. 'This latter dis¬ 
ease is transmitted to the chicks by con¬ 
tact with infected fowls or chirks, and 
also through the eggs, if they are hatched 
from an infected flock. The germs of the 
disease contaminate food and water, and 
are also found in the eggs of ln-ns that 
carry it. The remedy for simple diarhou 
is correction of whatever source of trouble 
may lie found responsible There is no 
cure for true white diarrhoea. Eggs 
should not be hatched from flocks that are 
not known to bo free from it. and little 
chicks should lo t bo exposed to other 
chicks that may have the disease, It is a 
matter for prevention, not cure. 
The temperature beneath the hover 
shoiild.be about 90. with opportunities for 
the chicks to get away to cooler parts of 
the brooder when rhev wish. Observation 
will show whether the chicks are com¬ 
fortably warm or not. If they huddle 
together, they are too cold, hut if thev lie 
about the floor or near the source of heat, 
apparently happy and contented, they are 
sufficiently warm. It is better to watch 
the chicks than to watch a thermometer. 
M. B. P. 
Death of Chicks 
I have been line breeding a strain of 
White Wyandottes. and have quite a few 
buds that went near 230 in their pullet 
year, and an average flock record of 100. 
A few weeks ago I hatched ucnrlv 100 
chicks, and they all died. Mv birds are 
carefully mated, strong, healthy and 
vigorous, my fertility is good and'had a 
00 per cent hatch. Tin •se chicks wer. 
lively as a cricket, and after three or four 
days just died. No sign of anything that 
I can discover. I have 200 or more 
chicks ready to hatch. I think I have 
been breeding too close. Then again, 
these birds have been laying about a 50 
per cent lay all Winter (all yearling 
hens), not forced, but just well taken 
care of. not pampered along, lots of 
room, plenty green feed, acres of it. all 
they want. L. s. 
Virginia. 
Undoubtedly there is always some real 
cause when chicks “just die,” hut il is 
not always easy to find it. There is 
nothing in your letter that gives a elue 
to the cause in your case, and I am 
afraid that you will have to work out 
your own salvation, or that of the chicks, 
in this ease. Lack of vitality might of 
course he cited as a possible cause, but 
you had a good hatch and apparently 
vigorous chicks at the start. I have no 
doubt that you have carefully inspected 
all of the feed given to see that nothing 
deleterious could have gotten into your 
food mixtures, and I certainly have no 
reason to think that I could give you any 
pointers on general care. It is strange 
I should clean and disinfect the brooders 
used by these chicks pretty thoroughly 
before putting the next hatch into the 
same quarters. You may accidentally 
destroy the cause of the trouble in this 
way. Imi a fortunate accident is not ro 
he dreaded. M. b. d. 
Mash for Baby Chicks 
We are expecting baby chicks soon, 
hut arc at a loss to know just what to 
feed in the way of dry mash. Could you 
name a formula for a home-mixed mash 
composed of good corn meal ship stuff, 
bran and finely ground oats? Would 
you add any pulverized charcoal and 
powdered buttermilk? d. s. 
Virginia, 
The formula recommended by the Cor¬ 
nell Experiment Station at Ithaca. N. 
Y., is a good hup. probably as good as 
any. It is as follows; Two pounds 
wheat bran and I lb. each of cornmeal 
or hominy, wheat middlings, preferably 
flour middlings, sifted ground outs and 
sifted meat scrap. After the chicks have 
reached the age of about -ix weeks it 
will not he necessary to sift not the oat 
hulls or the coarser parts of the meat 
scrap. Pulverized charcoal might be 
added or fed alone, if it is desired to 
give it. but with the amount of meat in 
the mixture ir is no: necessary to add 
powdered buttermilk. Buttermilk or 
skim-milk, or even whole milk, should be 
fed to the chicks if it can be obtained, 
however, and if milk in some form can 
be had in the quantity that the chicks 
will drink the amount of meat scrap in 
the mash can be materially reduced, 
(live milk fo baby chicks from the start 
and for at least a month, if possible. 
Nothing else can replace it. m. b. d. 
Worms in Hens 
Will you give information about worms I 
in hens, and the best way to rid them of 
same? Also state some cause, and wo 
could remedy same. Is worm in day-old 
chicks when purchased? S. F. 
New York. 
Worms in fowls are the result of trans¬ 
mission from other fowls, the eggs and 
embryos being passed with the bowel dis¬ 
charges and picked up in food and water 
bv other fowls theretofore not infested. 
Intestinal worms are so numerous that it 
would probably be impossible to find a 
flock without any, though they are not 
ordinarily present in sufficient numbers 
to do much harm. When they become so 
numerous as to interfere with the health 
of the birds, however, measures should be 
taken to rid the flock of them. The to¬ 
bacco treatment for the fh.ck i< probnbly 
as good as any. This consists in steeping 
1 lb. of finely cut tobacco stems for two 
hours in sufficient water to cover and 
then mixing the stems and liquid with 
four quarts of mash. This amount for 
each 100 birds. Feed the mash to the 
birds in the middle of the afternoon, hav¬ 
ing kept them without other food since 
the previous day. Two hours later give 
I lb. of Epsom salts to each KM) fowls, 
dissolving this in a little water and mix¬ 
ing it with three quarts of moist mash. 
See that the mash is placed where each 
fowl can get its share. The droppings 
containing the expelled wimiis must he 
promptly removed or protected, so that 
the worms w ill not be quo My picked up 
again. M. b. d. 
T.v a small country school during a 
recess period the teacher in charge of the 
playground saw one of the hoys about 
seven years old strike one of the girls. 
‘‘Norman." said the teacher, "no gentle¬ 
man would strike a lady.” After careful 
thought, tile hoy replied: "Well, no lady 
would tickle a geutleman.”—New York 
Globe. 
3,000 Leghorn Pullets 
now ready — $1.25 
Twelve weeks old S.C. White Leghorns, 
from our Rosemont hardy, pure-bred, 
heavy-laving stock. Raise them for 
profitable early Fall layers. Act quick. 
GET BABY CHICK CATALOG FREE 
All about the eleven noted Rosemont 
breeds and Rosemont practical methods 
of breeding and hatching. Illustrated. 
Send postal today 
Rosemont Poultry Farms & Hatchery 
Drawer 4. Rosemont. Hunterdon Co., New Jersey 
100 
50 
25 
Wh. & Br. Leghorns.. 
$12.00 
$6.50 
$3.50 
Buff Leghor. s ....... 
14.00 
7,50 
4.00 
Black Leghorns . 
15.00 
8.00 
4.25 
Anconas . 
15.00 
8.00 
4.25 
Minorcas 
15.00 
8.00 
4.25 
R. I. Reds . 
15.00 
8.00 
4.25 
Barred Rocks . 
15.00 
8.00 
4.25 
B:ff & Wh. Rocks.... 
16.00 
8.50 
4.50 
Wh. & S L. Wy'dottes 
16.00 
8.50 
4.50 
Buff Orpingtons . 
16.00 
8.50 
4.50 
Langslians . 
19.00 
10.00 
5.25 
Brahmas . 
20.00 
10.50 
5.50 
Sturt tin- season right with chirks that can 
he depended upon to produce profitable 
heavy egg producing liens. Farm at Hud¬ 
son. il. Mail orders to 
3. KREJCI. 2165 E. 86th St., Cleveland, 0. 
AMSl'g 
Well-Bred from Record Layers 
Each chick with its sterling, robust vital¬ 
ity is a jiving illustration rif our quality 
idea. Whatever breed you prefer, you 
are certain to get chicks of heavy-laying 
parentage when rou order HLLLPOT 
QUALITY chicks. 
LEGHORNS REDS ROCKS WYANDOTTES 
Sent parcel post prepaid Sate arrival of 
full count guaranteed anywhere within 1200 
miles. Catalog and Price List Free. 
W. F. HILL POT FREN c^ 0 oVn. h j 
George Phillips’ White Leghorn Chicks 
$22 per 100. postpaid. April 12th aud 19th: 
lower prices later, if ordered now: safe delivery 
guaranteed; from si.uk produced in mv pedigree 
matings from a few best individuals with best 
pedigrees. Last year ruy peu won 2d in New 
York State contest; pre\ii.t.s year. 2d through 
six coldest months in both Storrs. Conn., and 
Vineland. X. J.. contests. Most my . hicks last 
two years bare gone to old customers. Send $2, 
balance C. (i. D. 
GEORGE PHILLIPS. R. 25, North Haven, Conn. 
jltl Healthy Chicks 
<ii r t yr»un» from the hntolivrv with on un- 
Broken record of o\ ei \ enr- mri^fac- 
-JP tlt?nhn “* V* ire* tower than this 
v ' *’ Mr - All -ihickeslapped pre- 
Km t!*Hv*r\ cuftTontev'l. Week* 
l v . tiwtch, All leading breeds. 
Write fat Catalog and price Hit. 
Pine Tree Hatchery 
QUAUTY iSERVlCt ® 01 ^ Stockton, New Joreey 
White Leghorn PULLETS 
Fine, healthy, vigorous yellow- 
shanked range raised birds that 
will please. S-week old pullets 
ready to ship after April 21st, $1.35 
each. Discount on lots of over 250. 
HEDELCA POULTRY FARM ^ E JE L * A S " E ? 
The Pine Grove Poultry Farm 
CENTER MORICHES. L. I. 
Offers for immediate shipments S. C. W. L. | 
Chicks. $20,00 per hundred, of 2 and 3 year old 
stock, of imp-nested birds. Free range slock. 
Our hatching dates. Tuesdays and Wednesdays 
every week. Anyone calling at the farm with i 
containers, 5-t discount. .Vend for free circular. 
JERSEY BLACK GIANTS Now laying Marcy 
strain Price, $T5. OlUVbus I'I <HSaI,I..So. Sew Berlin, N.Y. 
SINGLE AND ROSE COMB REDS 
Pure bred, heavy producing Mock. Kgg-. $2—15; gio— 
1110. Baby ,-liix. $28—100, parcel post pi-epaid. 
XEI.LIE RPsSELL - Woodbury, Coxy. 
Q rj CENTS BE VS 
S. C. White Leghorn Chicks 
from certified 2 4-year old hen mated to Cornell 
I pedigreed cockerels. N JANDA, Huniinuton, L. 1 , N. Y. 
40 S. G. W. LEGHORN PULLETS 
Thoroughbred Barron ••'60-280-egg strain. <Mav tr n hed) 
I laying 75V Flue buds. $1.75 apiece. f. G«E60U»t<Uwl.eld.'< Y. 
BABY CHICKS From Contest-Winning Sirains 
1 S. C. R. I. Reds—Pitiecrest Orchard strain. Barred 
Rocks—FrauCais strain. White Leghorn-—Hiiview 
Farm strain. Number.' limited Prices reasonable. 
Circular. A. L. A KEY. Roslyn Heights, New York 
SINGLE COMB REDS 
Viberi's great laying strain. Hatching eggs. £2.50 
per 15: 8tO per 100, 0. EVERETT JONES. Hillsdale, N Y. 
BARRED ROCKS 
' Park's hred-to-l»y attain. Hutching eggs, S2.50 
per 15; BIO per 100 0. EVERETT JONES. Hillsdale. N.Y. 
BUFF ORPINGTONS 
Single Cumb Buff Orpington eggs fruru flint prise win¬ 
ners ami free range tiiuSs. Buff Orpingtons on 17. $3 
and to per 15. JOHN J. HLTHERCQ7T. P. 0. B. 130, l*«rifti«»tfcr,N.T. 
HATCHING EGGS OUST IKll'fcN PUCKS 
gOc CHOU : $2 |«-i J $?.&0 per o*l 
French Farm \e« Ourhuni, Metuchcn, J. 
S. t\ BiitT Leghorn Kgg- from Boston. Baltimore, Wash¬ 
ington, Buffalo: bloc rildwtn uiodc-i post -easou $,'! and 
*5 per Id. CREENEQND POULTRY TURDS. Sil.tr Creak. N. T. 
m i u vmuk. 34IW Hull- $225—60 Buckeye, 
IlUUDillVnj $10-160 Model. $13 — 260 
M- ael. $18—220 C yphers, $30- 240 cyphers. $25— 
240 Pr.tirie State $23-.(Oil Band Tray, $35—390 
three-tray style. $20. It KOODEKS—t Mill urge, 
site, $20 each Five 250-Lbiok Newtown Oil $14 
each—One 5(H) site. $18. Prices F O. li. Kach 
machine gun ran teed complete and serviceable. 
J vista Poultry Farm. Southampton. X. Y. 
RABBITS 
Rabbits For Sale 
producer, $15. 11-11'. pedigreed steel buck. 9 mos. 
old. $10. lU-'i>. tuaok buck, 10-mos -oid, $6. First 
money order received gets them BRO0KSY0E RAB- 
BITRY, R Miller. Prep 3S0 Hiledon Are . Paterson, N. J. 
The Delaware Valley RABBITRIES 
New Zealamisand Ruins Reds now ready for Spring 
breeding. Choice bred Does n specialty. 
THEO. S MOOKK - Stockton. N. J. 
fatnar far Sale Exhibition Carle- ii. Black. 
LaVieS l0r i3le Bed. White, Golden. Aeonti. 
55 per pair Also Abys-s'.-iinns, $6 per 
pair. W. O. ACKERMAN Neshauic, N. J. 
CHICKS 11 cents 
S. C W LEGHORNS. BARRED ROCKS REDS ANO BROILERS 
Safe delivery guaranteed Write for prices, 
C. P. LEISTER - McAIjsterville, Pa. 
Barron’s White Wyandottes Only 
I have been an importer since 1912 of the liighe-t record 
stock obtainable \lv foal are r-'nge bird. Vales, f 
nodes. Eggs fm hatching ITicet reasonable. 
E. E. LEWIS - Apalachin, N. Y, 
I vtjBABY CHIXS 
/ /- - ^-yr at very reasonable Prices. Live delivery guar 
an teed. Barred Rock*, R, I. Beds. White. Brown 
YMf Leghorns, Minorcas. Write for pamphlet— 
ACL Free valley view poultry farm 
---k J. M. SlNKFY. I'rop. Mr, IKt.rvill.. I'a. 
Bourbon Red TURKEYS 
BARRED ROCKS AND PEKIN DUCKS. <eud for circular 
CORKHILL FARMS 
Lanesboro. Mass. R. F. D. 
BOURBON RED TURKEYS EGGS 
Choice mating. Record layers. Large yearling hena. 
$6 per 10. Book orner now. Great demand. 
OKEY W. DKU8HEL - MiUBrsbuig, Ohio 
Jersey Black Giant Eggs 
pen of lieuvy luveis. Krcv tuit^re, year around. Guar¬ 
antee 7 i*% ffi’llifty. per i/>. per 100. Order ih»w 
for future deliect y. I\ HHINGE It.Nortli berrn*utowo,N.l. 
JERSEY BLACK GIANTS 
Raise PURE BREDS. Hatching eggs from pedigreed 
Stock. Fertility and safe delivery gnarautsed. Send 
for price-list. CEOAR GROVE FARM, llsper Blick Eddy. Pa, 
R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS 
AND BARRED ROCKS 
Bred for standard requirements and heavy egg pro¬ 
duction. Fee*, ti per l-V $10 per 100. Breeding stock 
for sale. KITTATINNY POULTRY FARM. Box 79, Union. N J. 
S f nrnc 0»,m Farm Strain. Wtdie h’oeks— 
. L. KlDj Fish®! Strain. In F.gge for $8.50. 
Send for Booklet on Milkoline for Poul¬ 
try. R. II. Anilemon, EuUra SgVaA, FT-hktll, N. Y. 
S. C. R. I. Red Hatching Eggs 
from dark selected nork at free ranch. 10c each: HI 
$9 per 100. II. de ItOKK, Geneva, N.Y R. 0 4 — 
R ate Com tilth ode I elu nd White*. Prirc winners—heavy “ 
layers-pay ere. Eggs, Chicks E. H VMItnEN, Haller. N.Y. “ 
White Plymouth Rocks “ Ks iTI* S 
$*—14. $18— too. JffKBMUM Ml KI'Ht, Jr , H„|. — 
T Hr.ilim.io Winner* «i Middletown. New Brit- | — 
Llglll Dranmas Hi „. Brtdgeooit «ml Hartford. S 
Eggs, $3 and *i per 15. Also qoalitv White Wraudottes. — 
Kggs. $2 and $3 per l.V IRVINE «. DICKINSON, Hign»m>t». Cana. — 
.. 
Sicilian BuHercup Hatching Eggs per" setting 
of IS tYwkerels, $4. MtBtlE NANOXtL. Vinelanil. M. J Haul. 3 
_ 
S tandard lturrcd Itoi-L llutehing F.gga. Cheap. 
Ktttlge. BEITHA CUODEBACK, Benian St. Skanaalalti. N. Y. 
r' .n. it. Turkey-, Hre-e Pucks. Guineas. Mantnjns. 
I me rouiiry tlnree. Ibgeone. Dogs, hatiyChick*, stock. 
Kggs lew. Catalog. Pioneer Firm*. Telford. Pa. 
Uesal-Dorcas White Wyandotte EGGS 
for hatching. Spit ndid IV inter layer*. Parent stock direct 
fiom.lotio Martin t- per IX A. C. AUOOT. Hamptao, Cairn 
mnSSmk sale Pullets and Cockerels Swl?biw!l 
Hint S. Cw R. I Re«t* in full bv Pr J «*e-, lo 94.SO Knob, 
i Selling off farm WHWAPI'O KlRUs, UidTik, >. J 
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